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hile concepts for health care reform volley back and forth in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, Johns Hopkins has quietly but meaningfully injected itself into the debate. Johns Hopkins Medicine has been working with a group of 12 academic medical centers to A Gazette explain the key role of these institutions Q&A with in the delivery of health care to milEd Miller lions of Americans. The group and Ron —which includes Emory University, Peterson Mount Sinai Medical Center, UCSF Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania and others—is focusing on a number of issues, including a proposal to create “Health Care Innovation Zones” that would offer support for providers working with stakeholders in their regions to redesign a more patient-centered delivery of health care. Since last spring, Johns Hopkins Medicine executives have met with a large number of White House officials and members of Congress and their staffs to make their views known. Edward D. Miller, dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Ronald R. Peterson, president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, have kept close tabs on the health care debate and say they worry that it’s missing the two most important targets: workforce issues and delivery systems. The two leaders, who have spoken publicly on the subject in a variety of news outlets, say they believe that having more people insured is a good start but that incentives in the current payment system need to be changed. Miller and Peterson recently sat down with The Gazette to discuss Johns Hop-

Jin U. Kang, standing, and doctoral student Kang Zhang work with a prototype of an optical tool for ‘virtual’ biopsies.

New optical tool could produce ‘virtual biopsies’ in brain cancer cases By Phil Sneiderman

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s a Johns Hopkins electrical engineer, Jin U. Kang has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber, studying what happens when light strikes matter. Now, he’s taking on a new challenge: brain surgery. More precisely, Kang is building a tool to help brain surgeons locate and get a clear look at cancerous tissue. In some cases, Kang

says, this device could eliminate the need to cut into the brain for a traditional biopsy, a procedure that can pose risks to the patient. “The idea,” he says, “is to provide instant high-resolution pictures of a small segment of the brain without actually touching the tissue. These pictures could Continued on page 4

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Lessons learned: Risk of serious flu-related sickness far outpaces risk of injectable vaccine in pregnant women B y K at e r i n a P e s h e va

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regnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according to an extensive review of published research and data from previous flu seasons.

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The review, a collaboration among scientists from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Emory University and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, found substantial and persistent evidence of high-complication risk among pregnant women—both healthy ones and those with underlying medical conditions—infected with the flu virus, while confirming vaccine safety. The researchers say that the findings, published online Oct. 22 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, solidify existing CDC recom-

mendations that make pregnant women the highest-priority group to receive both the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines. “The lessons learned from flu outbreaks in the distant and not-too-distant past are clear, and so are the messages,” said lead investigator Pranita Tamma, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins. “If you are an expectant mother, get vaccinated. If you are a physician caring for pregnant Continued on page 10

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Memorial service for student Miriam Frankl set for Tuesday

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riends and family will gather this week on the Homewood campus to celebrate the life of Miriam Frankl, a junior in the School of Arts and Sciences who died on Oct. 17 from injuries sustained in a hitand-run accident the previous afternoon. Frankl, from Wilmette, Ill., was a molecular and cellular biology and Spanish major who was helping conduct ALS research in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology. Her aunt Rebecca S. German is a professor in the School of Medicine, and her grandmother Pearl S. German is a professor emerita in the School of Public Health. Susan Boswell, dean of student life, said that Frankl’s parents and two younger brothers will attend the service. The memorial is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center. A story in the Oct. 26 Gazette erroneously referred to Frankl as Muriel. We deeply regret the error.

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he Homewood campus will be a shooting location this week for a major motion picture titled The Social Network. The Columbia Pictures film chronicles the founding of Facebook, the story of which mostly played out at Harvard University. Johns Hopkins will double for Harvard in the two sequences being shot today and Tuesday. The crew, which arrived on Sunday, will strike the set on Wednesday. All shooting will be outdoors, and primarily at night to minimize interference with normal activities. Filming near residence halls will take place between 6 and 10 p.m. and in academic areas—primarily the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles—after 10 p.m. The Social Network is directed by David Fincher, who was nominated for an Academy Award as best director for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Aaron Sorkin, best known as creator of television’s The West Wing, wrote the screenplay, which is based on Reuben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. The film, to be released in 2010, stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, an early investor in the social networking site and co-founder of Napster.

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ew options for those who want to work with urban populations in underserved regions are now available through a Johns Hopkins School of Nursing partnership with Teach for America.

As the first nursing school to forge such a relationship with the nationally recognized program, Johns Hopkins offers waived application fees and special admissions consideration to Teach for America corps members and alumni, plus two-year deferrals to students admitted to the school who choose to join Teach for America in the year that his/ her academic studies commence. Students can be admitted to either the second-degree accelerated program or the two-year baccalaureate traditional option. In addition, and depending on the availability of funds, the school will provide at least one halftuition scholarship for $12,500 each year to students enrolled in the program.

‘36-Hour Day’ author to talk on Alzheimer developments

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ovember is Alzheimer Awareness Month, and JHU Press’ next talk in its lunch and lecture series will feature Peter Rabins, a professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Medicine and co-author of the Press’ best-selling book The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias and Memory Loss in Later Life, as he discusses the latest developments in Alzheimer research and in the care of people with the disease. Rabins’ talk will be at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Johns Hopkins Club on the Homewood campus. Admission, which includes lunch, is $18. Club members should contact the club to make reservations; nonmembers should contact Jack Holmes at 410-516-6928 or jmh@jhu.edu to attend as a Friend of the Press. Seating is limited.

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n Tuesday, Nov. 3, SAIS will cohost a forum on democracy in Latin America with the former presidents of six countries. The event will take place at the National Press Club in Washington. The invitation-only breakfast and panel discussion is related to the launch of a report titled “Social Agenda for Democracy in Latin America for the Next 20 Years.� Speakers and authors will include Alejandro Toledo, former president of Peru, SAIS scholar and president of the Global Center for Development and Democracy; Nicolas Ardito Barletta, former president of Panama; Vinicio Cerezo, former president of Guatemala; Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico; Ricardo Maduro, former president of Honduras; and Carlos Mesa, former president of Bolivia. The report was produced by 20 former heads of state from Latin America in collaboration with development experts. The authors will present the document to the sitting heads of state participating in the 2009 Ibero-American Summit in Portugal later this year.

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free multimedia concert by the Peabody Computer Music Consort on Tuesday, Nov. 3, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Music Studio at the Peabody Conservatory. The concert, 40 Years of Looking to the Future, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. The highly unusual, even daring, event will feature surround sound, dance, video projection, improvisation, live computer interaction, interactive light sculpture and Speakeroids (two-way acoustical transducers) in combination with the virtuoso instrumentalists and singers for which the Peabody Conservatory is known. “When Dr. Jean Eichelberger Ivey founded the studio in 1969, it was the first to be located in an American conservatory,” said Geoffrey Wright, Peabody’s director of Computer Music and the concert’s artistic director. “Though much has changed in the field, chiefly because computers have evolved from huge mainframes to far more powerful and portable instruments, the spirit of visionary innovation continues.” The concert features alumni of the Master of Music degree program in Computer Music, which was launched 20 years ago. All the composers and many of the performers are Peabody alumni who have gone on to highly successful careers and are returning for this anniversary performance. One of the most ambitious works on the program is Windcombs/Imaq by Matthew Burtner, a University of Virginia faculty member. Inspired by the native culture of Alaska, Burtner’s home state, this dramatic piece features a nine-piece instrumental ensemble, a male vocalist, dancers, video, interactive computer music and a light sculpture called The Wind Tree, which responds to the dancers’ movements. Ivey, to whom the concert is dedicated, will be represented by her score for the 1965 film Montage V: How to Play Pinball. For this experimental film by Wayne Sourbeer, Ivey manipulated sounds recorded from vintage pinball machines by using techniques then considered cutting-edge. A new digital print of the film with restored sound has been created for this performance. The concert will also include the world premiere of notmare by Chris Mandra, one of the first graduates of Peabody’s computer music master’s program. Mandra, a former

National Public Radio webmaster, is known in the Baltimore area for his performances with the experimental rock band Telesma. In this new piece, he collaborates with another alum, soprano Bonnie Lander. McGregor Boyle, a Computer Music faculty member who chairs Peabody’s Composition Department, will present his piece As It Was for violin, piano and computer, with faculty member Courtney Orlando on violin and alumnus Michael Sheppard on piano. Margaret Schedel, an alumna now teaching at SUNY Stony Brook, will offer her haunting Only the Beautiful Lack the Wound, performed by alumnus David Brooke Wetzel on basset horn and multichannel electronics. Other works by alumni are Ichos, a video by Charles Kim, whose compositions were performed at Peabody’s New Year’s Eve 2000 project in New York’s Times Square, and Matt Diamond’s Errata, a setting of a

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vergreen Museum & Library’s popular and adventurous Music at Evergreen series of classical and worldmusic concerts returns for 2009–2010, presenting live music in the museum’s Bakst Theatre on three Saturdays in November, March and April. Concerts begin at 3 p.m. and are followed by meetthe-artist receptions. Croatian guitarist Robert Belinic kicks off the series’ 57th season on Nov. 7. Belinic was the sole winner of the 2001 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig, Germany, and in 2002 was the first guitarist ever to win a place on the prestigious Young Concert Artists roster in New York. He will perform music spanning five centuries, including J.S. Bach’s Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998; Manuel de Fossa’s Premiere Fantaisie, Op.5; Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Sonata Omaggio a Boccherini; and works by John Dowland

Launching the Global MBA

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he Johns Hopkins Carey Business School officially launched the Johns Hopkins Global MBA program on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the New York Stock Exchange. More than 300 Johns Hopkins and Carey Business School alumni, donors, students, faculty and staff, as well as prominent members of the New York area’s corporate community, attended the event. The school is poised to start recruitment of the program’s charter class for its fall 2010 launch. Above, Carey School Dean Yash Gupta addresses those in attendance, inviting his audience to participate in an “incredible journey” as the Global MBA prepares to “break the mold” of past enterprises and redefine the nature and workings of a business education to address today’s diverse and unprecedented global social, economic, health and environmental challenges. At the presentation’s conclusion, guests were invited to adjourn to a reception on the stock exchange’s iconic trading floor. —Andrew Blumberg

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Charles Simic poem to be sung by Lander. Diamond was the first student to receive, in 2008, Peabody’s new bachelor’s degree in computer music. As if the department’s creativity could not be contained within the concert hall’s dimensions in space and time, two installation pieces will be on view: Sketches, a video installation by Wright and pioneering computer graphic artist Michael O’Rourke, in Friedberg Hall, and Speakeroids 3: The Relabi Wave, by Empty Vessel, in the Bank of America Lounge, site of the post-concert reception. Empty Vessel consists of John Berndt and alumnus Samuel Burt, who are known for their work with Baltimore’s annual High Zero Festival of experimental and improvised music.

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and the brothers Regino and Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. Other scheduled performers this season are the multifaceted string quartet Brooklyn Rider, March 6, and the ensemble SEGUE in an April 17 concert of Flamenco music and dance. One of Baltimore’s longest-running music programs, Music at Evergreen features performances by renowned musicians and outstanding emerging artists. Funded by the Evergreen House Foundation, the series continues John Work Garrett and Alice Warder Garrett’s tradition of presenting performances in their home and providing audiences with an opportunity to meet the artists. Subscription tickets are $55, $40 museum members and $25 students. Tickets for individual concerts are $20, $15 museum members and $10 students. Tickets include museum admission and reception and are available in advance at www.missiontix .com (handling charges apply) or by calling the museum at 410-516-0341. For more information, call 410-5160341 or go to www.museums.jhu.edu.

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that is scattered back can be collected and used to construct a high-resolution threedimensional picture of the tissue, down to the cellular level. These images are significantly sharper than those produced by MRI or ultrasound equipment, Kang says, and should give surgeons a better look at the boundaries of a tumor and the presence of blood vessels and healthy tissue that must be preserved. Yet, compared to the older, widely used imaging systems, the new technology is expected to be much less expensive, perhaps less than $10,000. “It’s a very simple and cost-effective system,” Kang says. Kang’s project is supported by one of more than 300 stimulus-funded research grants totaling almost $150 million that Johns Hopkins has garnered since Congress passed the American Recovery and Revitalization Act of 2009 (informally known by the acronym ARRA), bestowing the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation with $12.4 billion in extra money to underwrite research grants by September 2010. The stimulus package— which provided $550 billion in new spending, including the above grants, and $275 billion in tax relief—is part of President Barack Obama’s plan to kickstart a stagnant economy by doling out dollars for transportation projects, infrastructure building, the development of new energy sources and job creation, and financing research that will benefit humankind. To date, 78 jobs have been created at Johns Hopkins directly from ARRA funding; in addition, positions have been saved when other grants ran out. Kang joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 11 years ago and has developed a number of novel fiber optic devices for sensors and communications. “My specialty now is the use of optical techniques in various medical devices and systems,” he says. In addition to the brain surgery instrument, he is collaborating with computer scientists at the university on a steady-hand tool that would allow physicians to conduct extremely delicate surgery on blood vessels in the retina of the eye. This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Revitalization Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu.

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Health care Continued from page 1 kins’ role in the debate and the future of medicine in America.

Why should Johns Hopkins play a role in the health care reform debate? Miller: I really think our role should be to help form the policy. I know that is a pretty audacious thing to say, but if we’re not at the table, we are not going to be able to clearly articulate what we think are the important things to address. We take care of a disproportionate number of the poor. We are responsible for training the next generation of people who deliver health care in the broadest sense—doctors, administrators, nurses and those in public health. I also think that it’s important to recognize the health care payment system. If it’s disrupted, it could bring institutions like this under great financial distress, and that has a huge impact on our community. Not just the community here but also the whole state of Maryland. Peterson: If you listen carefully to the debate in Washington, it’s labeled health care reform. But if you think about what you have read or heard, it’s largely about health care insurance reform. It’s really been a discussion on how to deal with coverage for people and how we are going to pay for that. There has been very little discussion on what we would categorize as health care delivery reform. I think what Dr. Miller is suggesting is that we need to be involved in the conversation because we need to emphasize the importance of introducing that thought of a health care delivery model and the workforce needed. Just think if you had tens of millions more people who are covered. Now you’ve created demand, but you have not necessarily created capacity: the supply to service that demand. And that is what we have been talking to people about.

How would you refocus the debate? Miller: The president says the current system is broken. Well, the current system is broken because of the way the dollars are allocated for the delivery of health care. Namely, it is still a fee-for-service business. You are not going to really fix the system until you take a look at a different way to pay for the health care that you deliver. Peterson: There is no incentive for a doctor to necessarily spend a lot of time and attention keeping patients well because that doctor is getting paid in the fee-for-service model. We believe there is something to be said for looking at a model that would give incentives for the providers of health care to keep people well as long as possible and be thoughtful for what they do when they introduce the patient into the health care delivery system.

Do such models exist? Peterson: We have experience with two major programs where we have responsibility for whole populations. For example, we co-sponsor a Medicaid managed care organization called Priority Partners. Within that context, we receive from the state’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene a monthly payment for each member that is enrolled. There are upwards of 150,000 individuals in the program. Along with that payment is the expectation that we will take care of all their health care needs. That has caused us to think about what we should be doing on behalf of those patients, and what we think is in our own best financial interests as well. It has caused us to pay more attention to prevention and to think about where are the most appropriate places to care for the patient when they need access to service. Like what Dr. Miller is saying, you should have more incentive alignment between

payer and provider. This population model causes us to think about how to do it more cost-effectively, but also how to do what is right medically and what is in the best interest of the patient. [Editor’s note: The other major program that Johns Hopkins manages is the Maryland division of the Department of Defense’s Uniformed Services Family Health Plan, a health care program serving active-duty dependents, retirees, their families, survivors and certain former spouses worldwide.]

Is reform happening too fast or too slow? Miller: Number one, you are dealing with one-sixth of the U.S. economy. We don’t think you can turn this thing upside down overnight. When we got into this managed care business, we had to learn. It’s an incremental learning curve. We think that anything that has to happen should be [in] incremental changes, not great big gulps, so to speak. Peterson: We lost money for the first several years when we took on these managed care responsibilities. And as we learned to manage them, over time we did much better. Something else to consider: In the past year, Maryland has changed the eligibility requirements for medical assistance, and so, many more people came into the system. We have taken about 30,000 more people. What happens when they first enroll is that they start to consume services. These folks seek out care because they never had access to a primary care doctor before. In a microcosm, it sort of gives you a taste of what could happen if the federal government extends in a big way coverage to large numbers of people. The point is, we think that based on what we’ve seen, and what the state of Massachusetts has seen, it would be very wise for the federal government to introduce this in some reasonable increments. It is imperative that you balance the ability to ratchet up the capacity of the supply side with the demand you are creating.

This seems to all go back to the point that you want to share what has worked, and what hasn’t. Miller: If we can identify the 5 [percent] to 10 percent of people who are really sick, because a lot of people are really healthy, and put measures in place to help those who are sick, that is where you can get some real value. We now have the largest primary health care network in Maryland. We have built that over time. If you go back to President Obama’s premise that we need to flatten the cost curve, we think we have experience here—that others can perhaps learn from what we have learned the hard way. We also think that what we do in the Baltimore region is going to be different from what we do in Seattle or Chicago or San Diego. So there have to be areas of the country where there are experiments of how best to manage populations. For example, we deal with a lot of inner city poor people. In Iowa, you are dealing with more rural populations. Maybe you invest in telemedicine out there because you are dealing with such long distances. Peterson: Let me be explicit about one thing. We need to be at the table because there is a lot at stake here for us. What I mean by that is that left to the government’s own devices, without some sensitivity to some of these issues, we can find ourselves with some unintended consequences that could be very harmful. For example, it would be dire if there wasn’t sensitivity to the fact that we need to have dollars for a reimbursement system for graduate medical education. Again, the correlation here is that if you are going to increase the number of people who are going to be served, you need to pay attention to the fact we need to produce the doctors and other health care workers to provide that care. It’s terribly important for us to be able

to articulate these things because it’s in our self-interest—but it’s also in the interest of the country more broadly.

How did the group of 12 academic medical centers convene? Miller: Dr. Mike Johns, who had previously been dean, and I thought that these very large academic health care centers needed to get together on the health care reform issue since their voice was not being heard. I called up people. We got folks at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and then we started to see who else should be involved.

Is the group able to speak with one voice? Miller: We try. We are not always together on all the issues. For example, there is the issue of congressional oversight of Medicare reimbursement rates. Some say we need a body outside congressional control that would report to the president and in turn to the secretary of health and human services. I would say that two-thirds of the group are opposed to the concept. I don’t think it’s a bad idea. My view is that if we don’t get this thing under control at a certain point, we are really going to get in trouble. Medicare is close to insolvency by 2017 by everyone’s calculations, but I think, more importantly, the health of the economy will be severely damaged. We can’t compete with foreign companies if our health care insurance rates are so high that the employer is paying 40 percent of a worker’s health care costs or, if conversely, we have an uninsured workforce. Just look at a family; they can’t be paying $30,000 a year for health insurance. They just can’t afford that. Wages have been flat for the past five years. So we have to get this under control, and it’s much better to do it in a thoughtful, proactive way than to come to the proverbial edge of the cliff and then just fall off.

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What about the danger in doing nothing? Peterson: I think there is a great danger in doing nothing. I think you will continue with this unsustainable growth rate in the cost of health care, and that burden cannot continue to be borne by employers, so they will continue to engage in cost shifting. We can’t continue to do that. Second, we see evidence every day in our Emergency Department of the danger of doing nothing. A significant amount of people that we are caring for do not have health care insurance, and one of the major problems with that is that they are coming to us sometimes after the disease has progressed much further than need be, and it’s more costly to them and their well-being. And it’s going to be more costly for us and society more broadly.

Can Johns Hopkins speak with a unified voice? Peterson: Within Johns Hopkins Medicine, we don’t always agree on every little thing, but I feel we have done a very good job of articulating a sense of principles that we have worked on collaboratively. Miller: We try to articulate high-level broad principles that we think are terribly important for research-intensive academic medical centers. We also try to be responsible for articulating some thoughts that we think are good for society at large. Another very important point is that we are much closer to the patient than anybody else and kind of look at it from a patient’s perspective. What would be the best thing for them? And what is best for them in the long run is to live a healthier life with as few health care interventions as possible. We at Johns Hopkins know how to make that happen. For more on Johns Hopkins Medicine’s involvement in this topic, go to JHM’s Perspectives on the Health Care Debate Web site at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mediaII/hopkins_ on_health_care.

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Chemical-catching researchers look to copy canine ‘sniffer’ By Kristi Marren

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dog’s nose, with its thousands of olfactory receptors, is one of the best chemical detection “sniffers” in military and police circles. That’s why a Homeland Protection Business Area team at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on its RealNose program, which aims to construct a sensor that would operate like—and as well as—a dog’s nose. The sensor will eventually be integrated into a system that could simultaneously detect more than 20 chemicals. The team recently completed the first part of the project: determining the limits of canine detection for a variety of nontoxic, nonhazardous chemicals, compounds and odorants that dogs would normally search for in the field or when training. The tests, conducted in April in APL’s Building 42, included five dogs provided by Castle’s K9, a law-enforcement canine training firm in Pennsylvania. Trang Vu, of APL’s National Security Technology Department, or NSTD, called on her Customs and Border Protection canine program experience to develop training aids and protocols for the tests. The team, led by Mike Wagner and Matt Schroeder of NSTD, built a vapor generation and control system that produced a variety of scents at various concentrations. Ten compounds were tested to determine how little of each compound the dogs could recognize. The test equipment was housed behind a six-sided structure with a cone on each wall, through which each vapor was sent one at a time. Starting at random locations around the structure, a handler would allow a dog to walk around it, no more than

Bill Castle, dog handler and owner of Castle’s K9, takes Ares on a search for the target compound at the APL test center.

twice, and sniff each cone. When a dog correctly detected the target scent, the team recorded the concentration and the handler rewarded the dog. The DARPA-specified chemicals used in the test included cyclohexanone, a residual

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(nonexplosive) solvent found in the plastic explosive C4; methyl benzoate, a product broken down in cocaine that’s often used as a training aid for drug-sniffing dogs; ethyl vanillin, an artificial vanilla; limonene, often found in cleaning solvents; and amyl

acetate, which smells like bananas. Although Ares, Max, Kika, Murphy and Nellie may have initially looked and acted like ordinary family pets, the team realized that the command “Find it!” turned the dogs into focused, hard-working searchers. “Dogs are very adept at picking out odor amongst a lot of clutter or confounders,” said Wagner, APL’s RealNose program manager. “During our tests we could see the dogs constantly learning and getting better at detection. As cognitive beings, they think, learn and cheat if they can to get their reward, but our tests were designed to keep things random and prevent them from cheating.” Having determined the detection limits and evaluation standards for the next test phase, the team is now building and characterizing the RealNose test equipment and structure in a Building 12 aerosol chamber. The team will evaluate the noselike sensors being developed by other organizations to see if their measurements are as good as the canines’. Tests began this summer and will wrap up by the end of the year. Phase two of the project, which starts in 2010, will require the sensors to detect odorants masked in multiple chemicals and possibly aerosols. “If things continue successfully,” Wagner said, “the end goal is to wrap up with a prototype device by 2012 that could be transitioned to industry and used anywhere you could use a dog or in areas that might be too dangerous for one, such as searching rubble after an earthquake if toxic chemicals are present.” The potential uses of these sensors are wide-ranging, Wagner said. It might someday be possible to fly olfactory receptors on an unmanned aerial vehicle to detect chemical agents associated with weapons of mass destruction—a mission impossible for even the keenest four-legged agent.

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ffspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron/folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that other supplement combinations, including the multiple micronutrient supplement, did not confer the same benefit. Nearly 40 percent of pregnant women worldwide are estimated to be anemic. Although there is an international policy for antenatal iron-folic acid supplementation, coverage and use of this antenatal intervention is low in many developing countries. The results are featured in the Sept. 24 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. “In a setting where maternal iron deficiency and anemia are common, we found a 31 percent reduction in childhood mortality due to maternal antenatal and postnatal supplementation with iron–folic acid compared to a control,” said Parul Christian, lead author of the study and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health. “A reduction in mortality resulting from an intervention, such as iron–folic acid supplementation during pregnancy, provides new and previously unreported evidence of benefit to offspring during childhood. To our knowledge this is the first time the long-term effects of maternal iron/folic acid supplementation on childhood survival have been examined.” Christian and colleagues examined the long-term impact of micronutrient supplementation on childhood survival, growth and early markers of chronic disease among the offspring of women who received micronutrient supplementation. The study is a

follow-up to a 1999 to 2001 randomized double-masked trial of the administration of micronutrients during pregnancy to women in the rural southern plains district of Sarlahi, Nepal. At the time, the team examined folic acid, folic acid/iron and folic acid/iron/ zinc, as well as a multiple micronutrient that contained the foregoing plus 11 other micronutrients. Vitamin A alone was provided in the control group, and each of the four supplement groups also contained vitamin A. The researchers found that iron–folic acid supplementation relative to the control significantly reduced the prevalence of low birth weight by 16 percent, and the prevalence of maternal anemia during pregnancy and the postpartum period by 50 percent. “Supplementation with iron and folic acid during pregnancy is a common policy in many low- and middle-income countries, although implementation is typically not very good,” said James Tielsch, professor and associate chair for academic programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. “This policy has been motivated primarily by the beneficial effects of supplementation on anemia in pregnancy and maternal iron stores. Following their previous demonstration that iron–folic acid supplementation during pregnancy increased birth weight, Christian et al. have now provided unique data on the critical importance of this intervention for improving child survival. This strong evidence should re-energize programs for the delivery of this critical intervention for maternal and child health.” The study was written by Christian, Christine P. Stewart, Steven C. LeClerq, Lee Wu, Joanne Katz, Keith P. West Jr. and Subarna K Khatry, all of Johns Hopkins. —Natalie Wood-Wright

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Boys at the barre: Peabody adds new young dancers Weisberger says. “Some of them could hardly do some of the steps and positions, but they laughed and enjoyed it. Then we had them do their own thing, and they were marvelous. You could just see the raw talent that wanted to come to the surface.”

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New from JHU Press Bolton Hill: Classic Baltimore Neighborhood By Frank Remer Shivers Jr. Distributed for the Maryland Historical Society

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his engaging history of Bolton Hill details the unique style of one of Baltimore’s oldest neighborhoods. Weaving fond recollections, character sketches and family histories with literary excerpts, newspaper references, and maps and illustrations, Frank Remer Shrivers Jr. revises and expands an earlier collection of pieces, originally published in 1978, to capture the pride Bolton Hillers take in their quirky part of town. Winner of the Baltimore City Historical Society 2003 History Honor and a Bolton Hill resident of 58 years, Shivers includes distinguishing details about the community such as the private schools—Bryn Mawr, Friends and Boys Latin—that once graced

Bartlett says that in addition to designing and implementing the program, Peabody seeks to nurture the boys and families on a one-to-one basis.

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roducing Peadody Dance’s end-ofseason student performances requires creative planning when it comes to filling boys’ roles, says Carol Bartlett, artistic director of Peabody Dance. Peabody is not alone. The Baltimore area, Bartlett says, has produced glaringly few male dance students in recent years. “There is a big void in male student enrollment in local training programs,” Bart­ lett says, “and we figured that we needed to create a new incentive for local boys to study ballet.” In an effort to encourage boys to pursue dance and the arts, Peabody Dance approached the Estelle Dennis Trust Fund this past spring to support the launching of a scholarship program that allows boys ages 9 to 15 to study at the Preparatory one day a week. The Estelle Dennis Dance Scholarship Program for Boys, which debuted in September, is open to those who live in Baltimore City or County. In its efforts to reach out to the dance community, Peabody Dance offers master classes and teachers’ seminars on an annual basis. About a dozen of these boys will participate in Peabody’s ninth annual Day of Master Classes and Ballet Teachers’ Seminar from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8, in the dance studios of the Peabody Preparatory’s Mount Vernon campus. This year’s seminar includes a new session called Training the Male Student. The new scholarship program draws inspiration from the 2000 movie Billy Elliot, which was later turned into a Tony Award– winning musical. Billy Elliot is the story of an 11-year-old boy from a working-class British family who discovers a passion for dance. On his way to boxing lessons, Billy stumbles upon a ballet class that he later secretly joins. Under the guidance of his teacher, Billy’s raw talent takes flight. Bartlett says that the program similarly wants to awaken talents in these Baltimore boys. Students selected to participate receive full tuition and free dancing shoes to attend Saturday classes during Peabody Dance’s 32-week fall/spring season. The program focuses on ballet, recognized as the building block for all theatrical dance forms. Participants are also introduced to other forms of dance, such as contemporary and hip-hop. In addition to classes, the boys attend dance performances and visit with professional dancers, both active and

Meredith Rainey, a former Pennsylvania Ballet dancer, works with two students.

retired. The Peabody program builds upon the Estelle Dennis Dance Scholarship, established in 2005 with the intent of continuing the work and legacy of the local dance legend. The scholarship is awarded to an advanced male ballet student who resides in the mid-Atlantic region and is preparing for a career with a major ballet company. Peabody hosts the annual auditions. A leader in the contemporary American dance scene, Estelle Dennis dedicated her life and career to creating training and performance opportunities for young dancers in both the amateur and professional arenas. In 1934, the Roland Park native and former Denishawn dancer opened her Dance Theatre in a converted carriage house at 100 E. Monument St. in Baltimore. The Estelle Dennis Dance Group blended modern dance and ballet choreography with ethnic music and dance traditions, creating an entirely new American style. Dennis remained active at the Dance Theatre until 1986. She died in 1996 at the age of 87. This past April, Bartlett, artistic adviser Barbara Weisberger and others at Peabody approached those overseeing the Estelle Dennis Trust Fund to support an effort to establish a dance program for boys at Peabody. The response was enthusiastic. Peabody hired former Pennsylvania Ballet dancer Meredith Rainey to teach the students, along with Peabody faculty member Tim Rinko-Gay. To help recruit the boys, Peabody reached out to leaders at Baltimore City and County public schools and at various cultural organi-

it. He also remembers some of the neighborhood’s most interesting residents: a graduate student named Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the silent-film star Francis X. Bushman, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the Cone sisters and the young television personality Garry Moore among them. ($35 hardcover)

zations, including the Heritage Theater Artists and the Arena Players Youth Theater. Peabody held a marathon set of auditions on May 18 at Roland Park Elementary and Middle School, Mount Royal School and Peabody. The sessions drew nearly 60 applicants. Twenty-four were selected. “The response was magnificent and a real energy booster to the Peabody team,” Bart­ lett says. “I don’t think Barbara and I will ever forget that day of effervescent human response. We wanted to take them all, and it was as if they could not get enough of the opportunity to move. It truly was a testimony to the obvious need out here for a much more driven focus on dance training.” Weisberger, founding artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, says that the auditions were a revelation. “[The boys] were so joyous and excited,”

“In offering this opportunity for city and county boys to study ballet, we realize that much more is at issue than merely asking them to step over to a classical art form that on the surface is not exactly relevant to their daily lives or culture,” she says. “The effort to make it relevant to them is equally, if not more, a challenge than the actual training.” Bartlett and Weisberger are now in the process of writing a proposal seeking funding to extend the scholarship program. The plan is to add an intensive training program for the boys currently in the program, as well as to offer classes for new recruits and begin a class focused on boys ages 8 to 10. “There is obviously a need to offer more,” she says. “It’s not enough to whet their appetites with one class per week. We need to keep their interest peaked and find ways to give context to serious dance training in their lives.” Weisberger agrees that Peabody needs to build upon the early momentum. “For too long we have been faced with the loss of serious male students in all dance forms,” Weisberger says. “This program has caught on, and it’s nothing short of life giving.” The next auditions will take place in late spring 2010.

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Medical M edical d l research s iss tthe beginning g g off hope. p And today its promise has never been greater. But despite the considerable progress that’s been made in new treatments and therapies, too many Americans still suffer from heart disease, asthma, depression, Parkinson’s and other incurable diseases. We can change this – through significant, annual increases in federal funding for medical research. It’s one of the best investments we can make in our future.

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Calendar Continued from page 12 Matejicka and guest artists Kevin Shannon and Stephen Tunstall). Hilda and Douglas Goodwin Recital Hall. Peabody O P E N HOUSES Mon., Nov. 9, 10 a.m. to noon.

Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Open House for those who want to learn more about master’s degree programs and courses. Academic and Research Building, 9601 Medical Center Dr., Rockville, Md. Montgomery County Campus. SE M I N ARS Mon., Nov. 2, 12:15 p.m. “Com-

Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW “The Unusual Mitochondria of Malaria Parasites,� a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Akhil Vaidya, Drexel University College of Medicine. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., Nov. 2, 4 p.m.

Mon., Nov. 2, 4 p.m. “Quorum Sensing Through the AI-2 Pathway,� a Biophysics student seminar with Bobby Trachman. 111 Mergenthaler. HW Mon., Nov. 2, 4 p.m. “On Uniqueness for the Cauchy Problem in General Relativity,� an Analysis/PDE seminar with Fabrice Planchon, Universite Paris 13. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

bining Classical and Modern Techniques in C. elegans to Solve Mechanisms of Morphogenesis,� a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Bob Goldstein, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

“Comparative Effectiveness Research 2009 and Beyond,� a Health Services Research and Development Center seminar with Albert W. Wu, SPH. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. 461 Hampton House. EB

Monday, Nov. 2, 1:30 p.m.

Tues., Nov. 3, 4:30 p.m. “Vector-Based Models of Semantic Composition,� with Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh. Sponsored by the Center for Language and Speech Processing. B17 Computational Science and Engineering Building. HW

“Activity-Dependent AMPA Receptor Insertion and Synaptic Plasticity,� a seminar with DaTing Lin, JHU and HHMI. Sponsored by Biomedical Engineering. 709 Traylor (Talbot Room). EB Mon., Nov. 2, 4 p.m. David Bodian Seminar—“Excitatory Synapses Get the Blues: Dysregulation of Serotonin Signaling in Depression,� with Scott Thompson, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/

Tues., Nov. 3, noon.

“Exact Averages of Central Values of Triple Product L-functions,� an Algebraic and Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Brooke Feigon, University

Tues., Nov. 3, 4:30 p.m.

of Toronto. Sponsored by Mathematics. 300 Krieger Hall. HW “Integrating Mental Health Into Pediatric Primary Care—Choosing Models,� a Wednesday Noon seminar with Lawrence S. Wissow, SPH. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., Nov. 4, noon.

“From the Streets of Baltimore to the Corridors of Washington: How Does It All Work?� with Joshua Sharfstein, principal deputy commissioner of the FDA and former health commissioner of Baltimore City. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. B14B, Hampton House. EB

Thurs., Nov. 5, noon.

Thurs., Nov. 5, noon. Bromery Seminar—“Improving Short-Term Weather Prediction with FlowDependent Uncertainty Estimates and Satellite Measurements,� with Elana Fertig, University of Maryland, College Park. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. 305 Olin. HW Nov. 5, noon. “The RNA World in Trypanosoma brucei,� a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Elisabetta Ullu, Yale University School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB

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Health, Behavior and Society seminar with Donna Vallone, SPH and senior vice president for research and evaluation, American Legacy Foundation. 250 Hampton House. EB

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9 Mon., Nov. 9, 12:15 p.m. “The Genes That Were Missed: An Expanding Universe of Small RNAs and Small Proteins,� a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Gisela Storz, NICHHD/ NIH. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theatre Family Weekend Cabaret. Arellano Theater, Levering. HW

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Fri. and Sat., Nov. 6 and 7, 8 p.m.; Sun, Nov. 8, 3 p.m. Barn-

stormers present T.S. Eliot’s comedic play The Cocktail Party. Swirnow Theater, Mattin Center. HW

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“27 Years Outside,� a slide talk by landscape painter Stuart Shils. A reception follows the artist’s talk. Sponsored by the Homewood Art Workshops and Homewood Arts Programs. 101 Jones Building, Mattin Center. HW Thurs., Nov. 5, 8 p.m. MSE Symposium presents a discussion by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.), the youngest member of Congress, on the role and future of young people in public service. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; a Q&A session and meet-and-greet follow the lecture. Shriver Hall Auditorium. HW Sat., Nov. 7, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Final Historic Homewood ArtWalk of the season. A 45-minute guided walking tour covering historic and artistic sites between the two significant collections of American historic interiors and decorative arts at Homewood Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Departs at 1 p.m. from Homewood Museum and at 2 p.m. from the BMA. Reservations requested (410-516-5589 or homewoodmuseum@jhu.edu). HW Mon., Nov. 9, 8 to 9:30 a.m.

Give-aways for United Way Campaign supporters at the School of Public Health. Monument Street entrance, SPH. EB THEATER Fri., Nov. 6, and Sat., Nov. 7,

W ORKSHO P S Tues., Nov. 3, 1 p.m. “Introduction to Facebook,� a Bits & Bytes workshop covering how to set up an account, customize privacy settings, add friends, upload photos and create pages to promote courses, groups or activities. Intended for Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs, but staff are welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSEL. HW Tues., Nov. 3, to Thurs., Nov. 5. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Research

Leadership for Postdoctoral Scholars, a three-day workshop covering Productivity and Career Advancement, Mentoring Students and Trainees, Building and Managing Teams, You and Your Organization, Dollars and Science, Time Management, Project Management, and Commercialization and Entrepreneurship. Open to the JHU community only; registration required (jhmipdo@jhmi .edu). Sponsored by the JHMI Professional Development Office. Mountcastle Auditorium. EB

Thurs., Nov. 5, 1 p.m. “Introduction to Google Applications,� a Bits & Bytes workshop exploring Google’s online applications for documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms; collaboration with other users; and document sharing. Intended for Homewood faculty, lecturers and TAs, but staff are welcome to attend. Sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources. Garrett Room, MSEL. HW

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methods of generating induced pluripotent stem cells,� said Akira Sawa, an associate professor and director of the Program in Molecular Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “Our process takes two weeks, compared to the 12 months it might take to generate cells otherwise.� Taking a tiny bit of skin tissue from inside the nose, the researchers then grow that sample of cells in a dish. Nasal biopsies, unlike standard skin biopsies taken from an arm, contain neural stem cells, which, according

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Job Opportunities The Johns Hopkins University does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic in any student program or activity administered by the university or with regard to admission or employment.

Homewood

Office of Human Resources: Suite W600, Wyman Bldg., 410-516-8048 JOB#

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Development Coordinator DE Instructor, CTY Network Security Engineer II Project Manager, CTY Program Manager, CTY Sr. Administrative Coordinator Special Events Coordinator Assistant Program Manager, CTY Program Associate Executive Assistant Vice President, Government, Community and Public Affairs Sr. Associate Director, Direct Response Marketing Research Service Analyst LAN Administrator LAN Administrator Campus Police Lieutenant

Schools of Public H e a l t h a n d N u r s i n g Office of Human Resources: 2021 East Monument St., 410-955-3006 JOB#

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Administrative Coordinator K4H Content Supervisor Sr. Technical Writer Occupational Therapist Research Specialist Program Specialist Program Officer Project Director, Research 2 Prevention Research Data Analyst Program Coordinator Research Data Analyst Research Data Abstractor Regulatory Coordinator Academic Program Coordinator E-Learning Coordinator, PEPFAR Strategic Project Coordinator

School of Medicine

Office of Human Resources:

98 N. Broadway, 3rd floor, 410-955-2990 JOB#

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Assistant Administrator Sr. Financial Analyst Nurse Midwife Physician Assistant Administrative Specialist

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Campus Police Sergeant Research Assistant Research Technologist Registration Manager Research Data Manager Fulfillment Specialist Academic Program Coordinator Academic Services Specialist Sr. Technical Support Analyst Academic Adviser Academic Program Coordinator Director, Multicultural Affairs Research Service Analyst Sr. Programmer Analyst Science Writer Software Engineer Research Assistant Content Management Librarian Desktop Publishing Specialist Research Service Analyst Head of Library Systems Bioethics Research Project Specialist Laboratory Technician Preservation Intern

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Sr. Program Officer II/Team Lead Research Nurse Clinic Assistant Sr. Sponsored Project Analyst Software Engineer Fogarty Program Coordinator Programmer Analyst Data Assistant Program Director Sr. Research Assistant Research Program Coordinator Sharepoint Developer Physician Assistant YAC Co-Facilitator Communications Specialist New Media and Web Editor Special Events Assistant Assistant Director, MHS Program Research Assistant MarCom Web Developer Research and Evaluation Officer Research Program Assistant II Research Assistant Multimedia Systems Specialist

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Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sponsored Project Specialist Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator Casting Technician

This is a partial listing of jobs currently available. A complete list with descriptions can be found on the Web at jobs.jhu.edu.

PEANUT ALLERGIC VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! The Johns Hopkins Division of Allergy and Immunology is conducting a research study to evaluate the safety of an investigational study product for people with peanut allergy.

TO QUALIFY YOU NEED TO: - Be a healthy man or woman - 18-40 years old - And have a peanut allergy. You will be compensated for your time. Call Sarah Driggers, RN (410)502-1711 or email: sdrigge1@jhmi.edu Principal Investigator: Robert Wood, MD IRB #NA 00023787

Notices Tutoring at Harriet Lane Clinic — Volunteers are needed for the tutoring program serving patients of the Harriet Lane Clinic, which is the general pediatrics outpatient center on the East Baltimore medical campus, during the spring semester. Tutoring is conducted in math and reading with the intent to boost each child’s skills up to grade level. Materials are provided, and tutors are supported by knowledgeable staff and faculty. Times are 4 to 6 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the clinic can be reached from Bayview and Homewood by the JHU shuttle. One two-to-three-hour training session is required. Tutors must have at least a GED or high-school diploma, take a TB test (or have a negative X-ray taken after Nov. 1)

Vaccine Continued from page 1 women, urge your patients to get vaccinated.” Because even healthy pregnant women end up in the hospital with preventable flu complications—some devastating and some fatal—at a rate far higher than that of other adults, and because of the proven effectiveness and overall safety record of flu vaccines, all pregnant women should consider getting vaccinated to prevent complications in both the expectant mother and her offspring, researchers say. “Health care providers will play a key role in women’s decisions about whether or not to be vaccinated against H1N1,” said study senior investigator Saad Omer, of Emory University. “There is substantial evidence that vaccination is not only safe for pregnant women but that it is critical for protecting women and their infants against serious complications from the flu. Physicians and other providers should talk about risks and benefits with their patients and help alleviate any unfounded fears.” Even though there are still no published data on the safety of the new H1N1 vaccine, experts believe it to be just as safe as the seasonal flu vaccine, Tamma says, because “the H1N1 vaccine is manufactured in the same rigorous way as the seasonal flu vaccines, and we expect it to have a very similar safety profile as the other flu vaccines.” In their extensive review of data from three past flu pandemics and 11 published research studies on vaccine safety outcomes over 44 years, the researchers found no increased risk of either maternal complications or bad fetal results from the inactivated (injection) flu vaccine. Researchers point out that even though study after study has found no link between the vaccine stabilizer thimerosal and autism, thimerosal-free injectable versions of the flu vaccine are available for those who have lingering concerns. In their review, the researchers say that four studies have found evidence that antibodies protective against the flu, developed by the mother after vaccination, cross the placenta and transfer some protection to the fetus that lasts up to six months after birth. Because pregnancy causes a variety of changes in the body, most notably decreased lung capacity, along with increased cardiac output and oxygen consumption, it puts pregnant women at high risk for complica-

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and get a copy of their measles, mumps and rubella test record (if born after Jan. 1, 1957). To volunteer or for more information, contact Robyn Nuttall at rnuttal1@jhmi.edu. Minority Global Health Disparities Research Program for KSAS Undergrads — One student from the School

of Arts and Sciences will be chosen to participate in the Minority Global Health Disparities Research Program, known as MHIRT, which consists of a summer internship for up to three months (June–August). Applications and more information on the program and research locations are available in 237 Mergenthaler, Homewood campus, and online at www.krieger.jhu.edu/research/ globalhealth.html. An application and two recommendation letters must be turned in to Lisa Jia, 237 Mergenthaler, no later than Tuesday, Nov. 24.

tions. In addition, parts of the mother’s immune system are selectively suppressed, a process that offers essential protection to the fetus but decreases the mother’s ability to fight off infection. Other findings in the review: • In the first four months of the H1N1 flu outbreak this spring, pregnant women were hospitalized at four times the rate of other healthy adults infected with the virus, according to the CDC. • Pregnant women made up 13 percent of all H1N1 deaths during that period, and most of the women who died were previously healthy. • Pregnant women do not get infected with the flu more often than other adults, but they develop complications that are more serious and occur more often. Pregnant women with underlying conditions such as asthma or diabetes are at even higher risk for complications. • During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, of the 1,350 flu-infected pregnant women who were studied, half developed pneumonia, and more than half of those who did so died, with most deaths occurring during the third trimester. • During the 1957 pandemic, nearly half of all women of childbearing age who died of the flu were pregnant. • Eleven clinical studies closely followed pregnant women and/or their fetuses after vaccination and found no evidence of harmful side effects in either the mother or the fetus. • The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System database, a national repository of self-reports of adverse vaccine effects, showed 26 reports of adverse effects between 2000 and 2003, a period during which 2 million pregnant women were vaccinated against the flu. Of the 26 reports, six had to do with wrongly administered vaccine without any negative consequences, nine reports described brief injection site tenderness, eight involved systemic symptoms, such as malaise and fever, and three were miscarriages. Investigators point out that these are self-reported events and do not establish any evidence of cause and effect with respect to either miscarriage or side effects. The research was funded partially by an NIH fellowship training grant to Tamma. Co-investigator Neal Halsey, of Johns Hopkins, receives grant support from NIH, CDC, Berna, Intercel, Merck and Novartis, none of which went toward this particular research. Other investigators in the study are Kevin Ault and Carlos Del Rio, both of Emory University; and Mark Steinhoff, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

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November 2, 2009 • THE GAZETTE

Classifieds

M A R K E T P L A C E

$1,100/mo. 443-286-4883. APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT

Charles Village/Guilford, 1BR, 1BA condo, newly painted, spacious living rm, dining rm, full kitchen, priv entrance w/ patio. $975/mo + utils. 443-858-9118.

Patterson Park, 2BR, 1BA RH, W/D, dw, exposed brick, yd, nr JHMI, avail midNovember, short-term leases considered. $1,200/mo. 410-241-2767 or jdph@me.com.

Charles Village, corner 2BR, 2BA condo w/balcony, 1,200 sq ft, clean, CAC, 24-hr front desk, steps to Homewood shuttle, all utils inclu. 410-466-1698.

White Marsh luxury contemporary condo, secure bldg w/elevator, private prkg, 1,400 sq ft, cathedral ceilings, 2 master BR suites, each w/ priv bath. $1,600/mo. 443-6230087.

Federal Hill, 2BR, 1BA end rehabbed RH, W/D, AC, fenced yd, prkg pad, view of harbor from roof deck, 20 mins to JHH, nr public transportation. Perfect for couple. $1,600/mo + utils (negot). adel@jhmi.edu.

Updated 1BR condo in secure, gated community, assigned prkg, swimming, tennis, nr hospital and university. $1,200/mo inclu utils. 410-375-7748.

Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, w/d, fenced yard, nr light rail. 410-378-2393. Jefferson Court, 2BR, 2.5BA TH, hdwd flrs, W/D, CAC, quiet area w/active community association, steps to JHMI/SoM/SoN, convenience of campus living/amenities of a private home. $1,200/mo + utils. 443838-5575. Mt Vernon, East Chase St, 1BR, 1BA luxury apt, walk to Peabody, Penn Station, art district, light rail, 540 sq ft, 9 ft ceiling, new dw, same floor laundry, 24 hr security. $800/mo + utils. 443-388-2802 or dfbls@ yahoo.com. Mt Washington, 2BR, 2BA condo w/huge loft, 1,300 sq ft, hdwd flrs, balcony, fireplace, garage, W/D, dw, microwave, high ceilings, safe neighborhood. $1,500/mo. 301-525-4505 or ufruth@yahoo.com. Patterson Park, 2BR, 1.5BA house, hdwd flrs, crpt upstairs, stainless steel appls, skylight, exposed brick, 1.25 mi to JHMI.

Apartment w/1BR and study avail beginning December, 3 mins to Homewood north gate, 7 mins to shuttle stop. $1,100/mo inclu water, heat, prkg. 443-386-1879.

Houses for Sale

Butchers Hill/Canton, beautiful 2BR, 1BA, rehabbed TH, new kitchen w/granite and stainless steel, conv to JHH. $154,900. Tracy, 443-864-5461. Timonium (8 Tyburn Ct), updated, spacious 4BR, 3BA house on cul-de-sac, one of newer houses in area, move-in cond, walk to Dulaney High, 2 mi to I-83 and lt rail station. $375,500. Debbie, 410-241-4724. Wyman Park 3BR, 2BA, fully renovated, 2-car garage, hdwd flrs, CAC, minutes to JHU, BMA. $289,900 (also avail for rent). 410-581-4939 or syakov@yahoo.com. Wyman Park, bright 2BR co-op apt next to Homewood campus and overlooking park. Easy walk to JHH shuttle. $142,900. 443615-5190. Renovated 3BR, 2.5BA house w/screened porch, fenced yd, prkg, sec sys, walk to Homewood. Will consider selling furnished. $299,000. 919-607-5860 or 410-962-5417.

Hampden Luxury Condo

2 BD + den/2BA, 2nd lvl of beaut. home on Roland Ave, w/FP, hwds, scenic balcony overlooking gdns., granite, SS app., W/D, plenty of street pkg., great area - walk to Avenue attractions + 1-83, JHU/JHMI. 1YR lease+1mo.sec.deposit. Cats , sm. dogs req. dep. $1500 per mo. 410-598-8343,jenrent2004@yahoo.com

Johns Hopkins / Hampden WYMAN COURT APTS. (BEECH AVE.) Effic from $570, 1 BD Apt. from $675, 2 BD from $775 HICKORY HEIGHTS APTS. (HICKORY AVE.) 2 BD units from $750 Shown by Appointment 410-764-7776

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Historic 1891 Elevator Secured Bldg. Brand New Units - $1250-$1300 2BD & 2

Full Baths, full size W/D, D/W, micro., carpet, CAC, free off-street pkg. 2300 N. Calvert. Central to all Hopkins locations!

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Lg, partly furnished basement BR w/priv BA avail in renovated 3BR RH in Mayfield, across from Herring Run Park, nr Lake Montebello, 10 minutes to JHMI, 5 mins to Morgan. $600/mo incl utils and wireless. mayfieldroom@gmail.com.

Horse boarding, 20 mins from JHU, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board) or $250/mo (field board). 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com.

F wanted for lg sunny rm, share house, high-speed Internet, kitchen, W/D, living rm, dining rm, porch, deck, 2 blks to JHMI shuttle, 12 blks to Homewood. $450/mo + utils. 410-963-8741. F wanted to share furnished, bright, spacious (700 sq ft) BR in 3BR house in Gardenville, vaulted ceilings, built-in shelving, track lighting, mod kitchen w/ convection oven, granite countertops, bottom fridge freezer, landscaped yd, lg deck, 5 mi to JHU, Bayview, Morgan State, YMCA. $550/mo + utils (sign 1 year contract and get a month’s free rent). aprede1@yahoo.com. Share all new refurbished TH w/ medical students (924 N Broadway), 4BRs, 2BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, crpt, one minute to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com. Master BR in 2BR Carlyle apartment avail until January. $700/mo. 410-375-0394.

Cars for Sale

VW 2001 Passat GLX sedan, V6, FWD, auto transmission, silver, 95K mi. $6,600. 410-375-0394.

Items for Sale

Microwave, chair, tripods, printer, computer, digital piano, 3-step ladder, beach chairs (2), stool, reciprocating saw. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. Leather couch, soft, comfortable, teal green. $225. 410-542-0409 or ncarrey@comcast .net. Pair of exterior French doors, new, white, 8 ft by 3 ft, made of Auralast wood, w/ 15 double E-glass panels and double locks. $750/pair. 443-768-4751. Christian Dior Norwegian blue fox fur coat, full-length, medium, great holiday gift. $1,200. 443-824-2198. Conn alto saxophone, mint condition. $650/best offer. 410-488-1886.

F Roommate 2 BR, 2 BA apt in north Roland Park (Baltimore County!), established community, furn'd, shared kitchen, W/D, free parking, near I83 & MTA Bus. Central to many shops, great library, coffee shops, bakery, walking trails, restaurants. $799/mo + 1/2 utils., Avail now! Call 410-935-0339

Piano lessons, experienced teacher, currently master’s in piano performance student at Peabody. $30/30 mins or $40/55 mins. 425-890-1327. Friday Night Swing Dance Club, open to public, no partners necessary. 410-583-7337 or www.fridaynightswing.com. Powerwashing, no job too small, free estimate. Donnie, 443-683-7049. Tutor avail: All subjects/levels; remedial, gifted and talented; also college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading. 410-337-9877 or i1__@hotmail.com. Affordable landscaper/certified horticulturist avail to maintain existing gardens, also design, planting, masonry; free consultations. 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hot mail.com. NYC bus trip, Sat., Dec. 5, depart Towson 7:30am, Fallston 7:45am and Chesapeake House 8am, arrive NYC about 10:30 am, depart 7pm. $55. 410-206-2830 or nlheyls@ yahoo.com. I can help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio. Free, confidential consultations. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@ aol.com. Licensed landscaper avail for leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC, 410-812-6090 or romilacapers@ comcast.net. Shopping, holiday or anytime: consider Avon. www.youravon.com/romilataylor or 410-615-0806. Looking to hire someone for garden cleanup, raking leaves, etc., near Homewood. $15/hr. Jim, 410-366-7191 or jwilli33@gmail.com. Evers Home Improvement, licensed, bonded and insured contractor, MHIC #83053, major credit cards accepted. 443-829-2217 for free estimates. Looking for Flamenco classes and events accessible by public transportation. miss masala@gmail.com.

PLACING ADS

RENT Luxury Condo in White Marsh

Contemporary, 1400 sq.ft. in secure building w/elevator, cathedral ceilings throughout, 2 Master BD Suites each with a private BA, Private parking. Will go fast - $1600 mo. Call 443-623-0087 to see.

Spending Thanksgiving in London? Looking for a sightseeing buddy and/or dining partner? lagom335@hotmail.com.

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• We cannot use Johns Hopkins business phone numbers or e-mail addresses. • Submissions will be condensed at the editor’s discretion. • Deadline is at noon Monday, one week prior to the edition in which the ad is to be run. • Real estate listings may be offered only by a Hopkins-affiliated seller not by Realtors or Agents.

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JHU profs join VP Biden in event touting stimulus success

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hree Johns Hopkins researchers on Friday joined Vice President Joe Biden in an event at the White House complex touting the early success of a $787 billion federal stimulus and tax relief program designed to reinvigorate the nation’s ailing economy. Michela Gallagher, vice provost for academic affairs and a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychological and Brain Sci-

ences; Dan Ford, vice dean for clinical investigations and a professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine; and David Sidransky, professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and director of head and neck cancer research at the School of Medicine, were among the invited guests. The event, which was organized by the National Institutes of Health, also brought out Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,

both of whom praised the transparency of the federal stimulus program and the positive impact it has had on their states. Biden, who is the lead voice on the stimulus program for the Obama administration, spoke of newly released reports showing that the stimulus dollars and tax relief have created or saved nearly 650,000 jobs. The reports are based on information from recipients of the stimulus grants, including those in the area of transportation, building

infrastructure, development of new energy sources and research aimed at benefiting humankind. A good portion of that research is being conducted at Johns Hopkins, where more than 300 grants totaling nearly $150 million have been received. The funding has enabled the university to create 78 jobs, 43 of which have been filled. To date, the university has submitted 1,311 proposals and received 312 awards.

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Calendar “Someday This Will All Be Over: Dying, Death and Grief Amongst HIV+ Children in Eastern Zimbabwe,” a graduate student colloquium with Ross Parsons, KSAS. Sponsored by Anthropology. 400 Macaulay. HW

Tues., Nov. 3, 4 p.m.

“Spinoza and Mendelssohn on Censorship,” a Jewish Studies Colloquium with Michah Gottlieb, New York Univeristy. Sponsored by the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW “Musical Tactics of Diaspora and Modernity on the Margins of the Black Atlantic,” a colloquium with Michael Birenbaum, KSAS. Sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW

Thurs., Nov. 5, 4 p.m.

C O N FERE N C E Mon., Nov. 2, 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Protection Project at

SAIS presents Trafficking in Persons as a Form of Violence Against Women, a daylong conference, with a keynote address by Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, special rapporteur on trafficking in persons at the United Nations; a panel discussion with Hassan Sallam, Suzanne Mubarak Regional Centre for Women’s Health and Development; Laura Lederer, vice president, Global Centurion; Jane Sigmon, U.S. Department of State; and Mohamed Mattar, executive director, Protection Project at SAIS. Panel will be followed by a screening of the movie Playground with the director, Libby Spears. For information and to RSVP, contact epanter2@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building. SAIS Reverse Research Day, an interactive poster session for city agencies and community-based organizations to present their work with the goal of connecting with researchers who could inform their work. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. E2030 SPH (Feinstone Hall). EB

Fri., Nov. 6, 1 to 4 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 8, noon to 4 p.m.

Johns Hopkins–UPenn Early Modern Philosophy Forum sponsored by the Evolution, Cognition and Culture Project, presenting “Ethics 1P16 and Felicity,” by John Carriero, UCLA; and “Descartes on Teleology and the Life Sciences,” by Karen Detlef-

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Fri., Nov. 6, 12:30 p.m. “Impacting the Origin of Life: The Case of Phosphorus,” an Astrobiology lecture with Matthew Pasek, University of South Florida. Sponsored by Biology. John Bahcall Auditorium, STScI. HW

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“International Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century,” a talk by Heather Eves, director and adviser of Bushmeat Crisis Task Force. Sponsored by the Global Energy and Environment Initiative. 500 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS

Mon., Nov. 9, 12:30 p.m.

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Tues., Nov. 3, 4:15 p.m. The Ephraim and Wilma Shaw Roseman Colloquium Series— “Scanning Magnetic Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Atomic Matnetometers,” with Shoujun Xu, University of Houston. Sponsored by Chemistry. 233 Remsen. HW

Wed., Nov. 4, 5 p.m.

SAIS and St. Antony’s College of Oxford University. Herter Room, Nitze Building. SAIS

“America’s Role in Kashmir: Past and Future,” with Howard Schaffer, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Sponsored by the International Law and Organizations Program. 812 Rome Building. SAIS

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Wed., Nov. 4, 4:30 p.m. “Sexual Revolution in France and the Algerian Man, 1967–1974,” a Women, Gender and Sexuality Colloquium with Todd Shepard, KSAS. Sponsored by WGS. 113 Greenhouse. HW

History of Science, Medicine and Technology. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Unraveling historic textiles

GRA N D ROU N DS Fri., Nov. 6, 12:15 p.m. “Are the Data in Your Electronic Records Correct? Lessons from the Maryland Cancer Registry,” Health Sciences Informatics grand rounds with Diane M. Dwyer, Maryland Department of Health. Co-sponsored by the schools of Medicine and Public Health. W1214 SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB

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n three Wednesdays in November, Homewood Museum will present Textiles Unraveled: Fabrics in Historic Interiors, a speaker series offering an insider’s look at the history and importance of fabrics in early American interiors. The series celebrates the installation of new window treatments and bed hangings in the museum’s best guest chamber, where important overnight visitors to Homewood may have stayed. Soft furnishings were often the most valuable component of a household in early America, and surviving evidence and documentation indicate that Charles and Harriet Carroll decorated their 1801 summer home in the latest fashion. “With Homewood having been open as a museum for over 20 years, we are beginning to revisit some of our textiles on display,” said Homewood director-curator Catherine Rogers Arthur. The new hangings are a vibrant apple green gauze and satin-weave stripe, custom-woven by Brunschwig & Fils based on a document fabric at Winterthur Museum & Country Estate in Delaware. The program includes presentations by Anita Jones, curator of textiles at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Louise Wheatley, artist and independent textile conservator, on Nov. 4; Linda Eaton, director of collections and curator of textiles at Winterthur, Nov. 11; and historic textiles fabricator Clarissa deMuzio, of Glencourt Design in Philadelphia, and Catherine Rogers Arthur, Nov. 18. Each talk will begin at 6 p.m. and be followed by a question-and-answer session and reception. The cost of the series is $40 ($30 museum members, $18 students); admission to single lectures is $15 ($12 members, $8 students). Because seating is limited, prepaid registrations are required. For more information, call 410-516-5589 or go to www.museums.jhu.edu.

sen, University of Pennsylvania. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW DIS C USSIO N S / TALKS

A discussion of David P. Calleo’s new book, Follies of Power: America’s Unipolar Fantasy with Calleo, director, SAIS European Studies Program; Thomas Keaney, associate director, SAIS Strategic Studies Program; Michael Lind, policy director, Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation; Ronald Steel, professor emeritus of international relations, USC; and Michael Mandelbaum (moderator), director, SAIS American Foreign Policy Program. Sponsored by the American Foreign Policy Program. Rome Building Auditorium. SAIS

Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m.

“Politics and Land-Related Conflict in

Wed., Nov. 4, 12:30 p.m.

Africa: Examples From Ghana and Kenya,” with Catherine Boone, University of Texas, Austin. Sponsored by the African Studies Program. 736 Bernstein-Offit Building. SAIS Wed., Nov. 4, 12:45 p.m. “Prospects for Brazil’s Energy Strategy and the Competition to Supply Ethanol,” with Joel Velasco, Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association. Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program. 517 Nitze Building. SAIS

A Complex Geometry seminar with Norman Levenberg, Indiana University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger Hall. HW Wed., Nov. 4, 3 p.m.

Thurs., Nov. 5, 3 p.m. “Genetics,

Disability and Identity: The Medical and Social Dynamics of Labeling Disease and Difference,” with Alexandra Minna Stern, University of Michigan. Sponsored by

information session for the MS in Biotechnology Program. RSVP online at http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=1616. An MA in Communication information session for prospective students to learn about the program, meet current students and faculty and submit applications. RSVP online at http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index.cfm?ContentID=1553. LL7, Washington DC Center.

Wed., Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.

Thurs., Nov. 5, 7 to 9 p.m.

Online information session for the online certificate in Geographic Information Systems. RSVP at http://advanced.jhu.edu/ rsvp/index .cfm?ContentID=1617. LE C TURES

The 2009 Samuel Iwry Lecture— “Samaritans and Jews: New Developments Pertaining to Their Early Relations,” by Gary Knoppers, Pennsylvania State University. Sponsored by Near Eastern Studies. 205 Krieger. HW

Mon., Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m.

“Just in the Wrong Place? Geographic Tools and Occupational Injury Prevention,” a Leon Robertson Faculty Candidate Lecture with Ronnie Neff, research director, Center for a Livable Future, SPH. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. 250 Hampton House. EB

Tues., Nov. 3, 12:10 p.m.

Tues., Nov. 3, 7 p.m. “The Fall of the Wall and the Fall of Communism: Why—and Why 1989?” with Archie Brown, professor emeritus of politics, Oxford University, and fellow emeritus, St. Antony’s College. Preceded at 6 p.m. by a wine and cheese reception for the SAIS community and St. Antony’s College alumni only (RSVP to egerasimov@jhu.edu or 202-663-5795). Sponsored by Russian and Eurasian Studies at

Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m. “The Cajal Body and snRNP Biogenesis,” with Joseph Gall, JHU and Carnegie Institution of Washington. Sponsored by Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. W2030 SPH (U.N. Room). EB

Kossiakoff Lecture—“Engineering Cell Death,” with Jim Wells, University of California, San Francisco. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in the Jenkins Lounge. Sponsored by Biophysics. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m.

“Estimates from Below: Spectral Function, Remainder in Weyl’s Law and Resonances,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

Mon., Nov. 9, 4 p.m.

M USI C Tues., Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m. Multimedia concert featuring the Computer Music Consort and celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Music Studio at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

Peabody Chamber Winds plays works by Gulino, Stravinsky and Dvorak, with Harlan D. Parker conducting. Griswold Hall. Peabody. Fri., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m. Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble, with Gary Thomas conducting. $15, $10 seniors, $5 students with ID. East Hall. PeaWed., Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.

body Sat., Nov. 7, 3 p.m. Music at Evergreen presents Robert Belinic, a young Croatian guitarist performing music spanning five centuries. Tickets include museum admission and a reception: $20, $15 members, $10 full-time students with ID. Reservations recommended: www.missiontix.com or 410-516-0341. Bakst Theatre, Evergreen Museum and Library.

Peabody Preparatory faculty recital with Yoon Young Bae, violin; Jill Collier, violoncello; Jennifer Herrera, violin; Wonhee Kim, violoncello; Bomi Lim, piano; 1 East Guitar Quartet (Zoe Johnstone, J. Scott

Sun., Nov. 8, 3 p.m.

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Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building Computational Science and Engineering Building EB East Baltimore HW Homewood KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building

SAIS School of Advanced

International Studies

SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering

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